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Bonds on the Ballot: What Voters (Don't) Know About Debt Financing and Why It Matters

Public Budgeting &Finance, EarlyView.
Abstract American subnational governments commonly require voters to approve bond proposals, reflecting historical concerns about legislative shortsightedness. Yet voters need an understanding of how bond financing works to make choices consistent with preferences. Existing literature makes it unclear whether voters have such knowledge.
Shanna Pearson‐Merkowitz, Joshua J. Dyck, Edward L. Lascher Jr., Corey Lang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Community attitudes and Indigenous health disparities: evidence from Australia's Voice referendum. [PDF]

Lancet Reg Health West Pac
Saxby K, Aitken Z, Burchill L, Zhang Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Power of Renewal: Status Quo Bias Impacts Voter Approval of School Spending Referendums

Public Budgeting &Finance, EarlyView.
Abstract Status quo bias often impacts decisions about private goods and is hypothesized to influence voter choice. This paper offers a clean, direct, real‐world test of status quo bias's effect on voter support for school spending. We take advantage of a unique Minnesota rule that requires ballot language to disclose and distinguish between new and ...
Corey Lang, Rachel Ricchio
wiley   +1 more source

Johannes Stark und die gescheiterte Erklärung deutscher Nobelpreisträger zur Volksabstimmung vom 19. August 1934. [PDF]

Ber Wiss
Hoffmann D, Kleinert A.
europepmc   +1 more source

A Hundred Thousand Darlingtons: Self‐Respect, Moral Judgement, and the Right to an Equal Democratic Say

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT I defend the non‐instrumentalist thesis that every adult member of a political society has a pro tanto fundamental moral right to an equal democratic say in determining the content of the laws to which she is subject. I begin by giving an account of an important kind of servility that has received only glancing notice in philosophical ...
Shruta Swarup
wiley   +1 more source

Health, mental health, and hearing indigenous voices. [PDF]

Australas Psychiatry
Amos A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Deliberation, distortion and dystopia: the news media and the referendum [PDF]

, 2016
Charlie Beckett
openalex  

Introducing a novel method to support polarized citizens to sustain political dialogue

Political Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article offers a novel quasi‐experimental method over two studies for exploring how individuals can navigate politically polarizing discussions to sustain dialogue. Study one (N = 28) involved in‐person, stimulus‐led interviews in England and Scotland to understand the dialogical political positions being adopted on the UK's post‐Brexit ...
Anthony English, Kesi Mahendran
wiley   +1 more source

Post-legalization rise in German medical cannabis interest: evidence from Google trends as surrogate marker. [PDF]

J Cannabis Res
Kirchberger MC.
europepmc   +1 more source

The psychology of political attitudinal volatility

Political Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract The assumption that political beliefs are formed by early‐life socialization and psychological predispositions, leading to stability in adulthood, increasingly acts as a theoretical cornerstone in the literature. However, politics is replete with examples of attitudinal change; this article proposes that certain stable psychological ...
James Dennison
wiley   +1 more source